Ben said he found himself wanting to see the navigation system as he read about it. I went back through the discussion and asked where a figure could make the claim easier to follow. I had considered an example from Nathan Fielder’s airport rehearsal. It was interesting as a cultural reference, but I felt it needed too much explanation to earn its place. I chose examples that let someone look directly at the communication or environment I was describing.
I used Heathrow’s wayfinding and help-point imagery to make the discussion of airport communication more concrete. The reader can see where a sign or marker might direct attention and what it asks a traveller to do next. The image gives me something specific to discuss. Whether someone can find the marker or get help in practice is a different question, which is why I considered the examples alongside the research about lived experience.
The Gold Coast sensory map was useful because the reader could see how conditions were represented in relation to spaces. That made it easier to discuss the decision a traveller might be making before entering an area. A sensory-room photograph shows the inside of one space. A map does another job by showing where spaces and conditions sit in relation to a route. I could then ask how the traveller moves from noticing an option to finding it.
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I chose a figure when it let the reader see a part of the argument they would otherwise have to imagine.
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My communication diagram had a different status from the airport examples. It was my proposal for how journey information, optional support and a conditional physiological branch could fit together. The caption and note needed to show where the idea came from and that the relationships were hypotheses. I wanted the diagram to be useful as a bridge into Studio Practice. It shows how I thought the evidence might translate into a system and gives a reader a way to question the connection for themselves.
I wanted the captions and the paragraphs to work together. A caption identifies what the image is and where it came from. The paragraph tells the reader what to look at and why it matters. I can check this by tracing each image back to the discussion. For the communication diagram, the note explains the conditional branch and points back to the questionnaire prompts. For the map, the relevant detail is how a reader can use the marks and labels to anticipate conditions in a particular space.